Simmons v. East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Westmoreland. City court of Atlanta. March term, 1893.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
It appears from the declaration that the plaintiff] while on the defendant’s train where he was employed as a brakeman, was placed m a position of imminent peril by the conduct of 'the engineer in not turning the engine into a switch and in going forward -without slackening speed, when another train from an opposite direction was due and about to meet this train; that the conductor of the train the plaintiff was on, becoming alarmed at this, attempted to signal to the engineer with a lantern, and directed the plaintiff’ to do the same thing, and he did so, but their lanterns…
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